factoid
Noun
Meaning
a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print
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Examples
Almost as compulsive is the urge to add a second factoid along the lines of 'Leonardo Da Vinci believed that the human form displays the golden ratio.'
I saw an article or factoid somewhere and the average take from a bank robbery in the USA is less than $4,500 or so.
Here is a Presidents Day factoid for ya. it was President Ulysses S. Grant in 1870 that established the weather service.
Here's another interesting factoid about the turnover of people in the Houston area due to corporate transferring and the region's growth: It's about 200,000 people a year.
I got a PM last night from a gentleman who thought to educate me on the hitherto unsuspected factoid that black people use El Verboto.
So it is a factoid that "factoid" means something that is true.